ITU-T Study Group 13 Meeting

posted 19 Mar 2013, 06:14 by Patrick Poullie

On February 25 and 27, 2013, members of
the UZH delegation (coordinator of SmartenIT) attended the ITU-T SG13 meeting
in Geneva, Switzerland, to contribute to the development of ITU recommendation
Y.FNsocioeconomic, which is aimed at the “Socio-economic Aware Design of Future
Network Technology”. The development of this document stems from efforts of the
SESERV project, that initiated the development of the document within ITU in
2011. The study period, that the development of the document was started in,
recently ended, wherefore a new Question to develop the document in, became
necessary. Thus, the first proposal of SmartenIT attendants was to continue the
development of the document within an ITU-T’s Q16/13, that addresses “Environmental
and socio-economic sustainability in future networks and early realization of
FN” and is therefore considered a perfect match for the further development
of the document. Secondly, editorial and structural changes were proposed.
Third, the addition of a section that explains to ITU members how to best
integrate the socio-economic
analysis (by the means of tussle analysis) proposed
within Y.FNsocioeconomic in the standardization of Future Networks was
suggested. All three proposals were well received by the meeting participants.
However, the valuable feedback given during the meeting led to agree on
significant extensions and adaptions of the document, as discussed
subsequently.

ITU recommendation Y.3001
identified objectives and design goals for future networks, two of which were
"social and economic awareness" (objective) and "economic
incentives" (design goal). Y.FNsocioeconomic was started to develop a
methodology to better achieve these two criteria. As pointed out by meeting
participants, the objective of “social and economic awareness” implies the
design goal “service universalization” (besides "economic incentives"),
which was hitherto not addressed by Y.FNsocioeconomic. Since the document
attracted meeting participants, these volunteered to provide content for such
an additional section until the next Study Group meeting. To further improve
consistency with Y.3001, the scope of the document will be adapted and the
title was changed to “Social
and Economic Awareness of Future Networks” (cf.
Y.3001 Section 7.4).

The next editorial
iteration for Y.FNsocioecomic will happen during SG13 Rapporteur meeting in
June 17-28, 2013, and during SG13 meeting in November 4-15, 2013. The UZH
delegation will provide contributions to these iterations that are to be
developed in the framework of SmartenIT´s socio-economic research facet and evaluates
potential to channel technical SmartenIT research to ITU-T recommendations as
well.